Nutanix Virtual Platform Announces Agreement With Dell

Nutanix, a provider of datacenter infrastructure solutions, has signed an original equipment manufacturing (OEM) agreement with Dell to create a line of hardware based on Nutanix web-scale technology. This collaboration is designed to deliver web-scale technology to enterprises of any size, a company press release states.

The Dell XC Series of Converged Appliances will be available to meet a wide range of price and performance options. Nutanix’s web-scale software runs on all popular virtualization hypervisors, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V and open source KVM.

“Nutanix is a recognized leader in the converged infrastructure market with a software-driven offering that fits with Dell’s efforts to redefine datacenter economics and simplify IT for our customers,” said Alan Atkinson, vice president and general manager, Dell Storage. “By combining market-leading infrastructure and software technologies from both companies with Dell’s world-class go-to-market capabilities, we believe our new solutions will be positioned to be a significant player in the growing, multi-billion dollar converged infrastructure market.”